The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. SATURDAY. pf Her Majesty honoured with a visit yesterday the exhibition tb.e Society of Painters in Water-colours in Pall-mall East. t Majesty was accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, and 'was attended by Lady Barham, Lady Caroline Barrington, 1.14 Marquis of Conyngbam, Lord Gardner, Hon. C. Murray, and Colonel Wemyss. Her Majesty gave audiences yesterday to the Earl of Albe.. toarle and Viscount Melbourne. The following joined the Royal circle at dinner yesterday: --Viscount Melbourne, Lady Mary Stopford, Right Hon. G. S. Byng, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was in Attendance at the Palace during the evening. The Duchess of Glrlucester visited the Duchess of Cam 'bridge yesterday: Pr iv A Committee o f t h e Lords of her Majesty's most Hon. y Council assembled yesterday, at the Council-office, on the subject cf the, charter of incorporation, prayed for by the inhabitants. of P , irmingham and Bolton. The Lords present were, the. Lord President the Secretary of State for the 11° " D t i r ' Artment, th e First Lord of the Admiralty, the Presi:der.t, of the Board of Trade, and the Secretary- at-Wor r is und ers t oo d t h at the Birmingham charter was agreed 'TV , and that the Bolton charter was postponed. ,tir Lordships sat an hour and a half. 't ' 11 . 'deputatio n, i ncluding Messrs. Gladstone, Colville, and CrJl:wemial-office.art, had an interview yest er d ay w ith Lo r d Glenelg, at the d. The Bishop of London, Viscount Lake, Colonel Edwards, Mr. Cayley, M. P., had interviews with Viscount Mel -001 erne, in Downing -street, on Thursday. Sir Francis B. Head, Rev. A. 0. Hannan, Captain J. iht Les, C aptain Allan, Mr. Laidlaw, and Dr. Hopkins, had eryiew s yesterday with Lord Glenelg„ at the Colonial-office. Mr. Hawes, M. P., had an interview with th e P res id en t o f , J. Board o f Trade yesterday ; and Sir Francis Head and Sir -Hall transacted business at the same office. MONDAY. "el. Mrijesty and her august mother attended di v i ne serv i ce yes terda mornimr, in the Chapel Roy a l, St. J ames ' s . Th e fsreo' 7° -- 4 was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath, the Sub-Dean, the the third chapter of the First Epistle of St. John, and second verse. The officiating Cl erg y men were t h e R ev. i n es ' C a'S. Wesley an d K napp. The musical service was King's Savage's Sauctus and King's responses. The anthem s(ifnuelßa‘t‘tGheoaceri g s a g n one up" (Croft). Sir George Smart pre fer Majesty was attended by Lady Barham, Hon. Misses IC C e (il c ou s e i an \ d ve A r l 47, Lord Gardner, Hon. C. Murray, and Lady Flora Hastings was in waiting on the liuchess of Kent. The Rev. Dr. Short was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting. of R A i m ch o m ng osn t d t , h eNobility present were the Dowager Duchess How e , and the Marquis of Sligo, Earls of Wilton, Brandon, . " 3 w:tor. The Princess Augusta visited her Majesty yesterday. Qu V ee is n cguns l elbou rne h a d an au di ence y es t er day of the lie;a4 . • i r -,_,'"aJa• • • sty held a Court on Saturday, at the new Palace. teU l tia r r ir ' id oni eL th Env , o . y Extraordinary, and Minister Plenipo the Q fi . e King of the Netherlands , bad an audience of Vi s -en. to t a k e l eave. His Excellency was introduced by c Stat ehe F cou fit , her Palmerston , Majesty's Principal Secretary of Thr Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Aer, Master of the Ceremonies. T.. 9 in Jae Court was attended by Lord Gardner, Lord in Wait is-, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Clerk Marshal, and the LI. C. Murray, Groom in Waiting. '?Hoa re - ' er Ma jesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, ho ,d the performance of 1 Puritani, at her Majesty's brhe k atr e , , fi Saturday evening, with her presence. The ~n e arid Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta "' Cambridge were also present at the performance. . "visited Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge The her Majesty on Saturday. Dougi h e Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen ~er on Saturday, at Marlborough House. la r i t Th e Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the • lerd n eSS Augusta of Cambridge, attended divine service yes- The morning, in Grosvenor Chapel. tto li,e Duke of Cambridge attended divine service yesterday i l i ng in Kerr Church. !no r • e Pri ncess Augusta attended Divine service yesterday s itta-ni•ng in Lashilip's Chapel. Her Royal Highness w T he yy Mary Pelham. pang fi e t - T i ke of Cambridge honoured Mr. Cox with his com pl. in-ca_in_ner On Saturday in Grosvenor-place. i the Earl''' Gorge of Cambridge, the Duke of Beaufort, and el s ,-, ef 'Chesterfield dined with Lord Adolphus Fitz- Gbaesro.,filideoeer Chesterfield at his Lordship's residence in the A . m 'Court, St. James's. His Royal Highness Prince and r 5 at tended by Colonel Cornwall, honoured Sir William u '& 1 ': Gomm, with his company at dinner on Saturday) in riP.c.: rosven?r-street. dinn l i e-Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, gave a grand ?', as President of the Rol al Society, on Saturday, at asington Palace. The •it included the Marquis of Lea nsdowne, Viscount MelbouPd 3' Lord Glenelg, the Chan ellor of the Exchequer, and other rne Cabinet Ministers. A Committee of the Lords of her Ma'esty's most Honour able Privy Cuneit, sat at ic ' ' lonk on Saturday as a Court of Claims at the Cou e e'l ve O n ffi o c c e, to consider and de ,cide on the claims for Council to be rendered at her Nlajes :ty's Coronation. The Lords present were the Lord Presi dent, the The of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Archbishop the Lord Chancellor, the Earl l'Zars u hal, th e Ch ancellor of the Exchequer, and the Master of . AOTSC. Cl erks C. G rev i lle and the Hon. 'William Bathurst, the kderks of the Privy Council, were in attendance. t Proc lunation having been made by 'lir. W. Buett,ofStehre atat,Arms, the Crier of the Court, of h t e h r e op Majesty ening on the q, ?"%, the Royal Commission signed by 41 ' Past., consituting the Court, was read by Mr . Edmunds, me . Clerk of the Crown. A Deputation from the Dean and Chapter of the Colle giate Ch urc h of Westminster, including the Bishop of Glou cester and the Rev. John Jennings, appeared before their Lordships, when the Bishop of Gloucester presented a peti tion under the common seal claiming to perform the usual services, and t o rece i ve th e customary allowances. The Lord Chancellor having stated the decision of the Court, the De putation rel_ired. x i's. Peti'cion from Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, to attend her g 4 s j e stY , . and receive the perquisites of the office of Lord - a nA)Prlain was read. M r Petitio n f rom th e Bi s h op o f D ur h am t o su pp or t h er r 4esty in the procession was considered. 7 44dr spha i tition from Bernard Edward, Duke of Norfolk, Earl o f En g l an d, c l a i m i ng t h e g l ove o f t h e r i g ht h an d, lat ,c See suppor t th e Q ueen ' s r i ght arm w hil e her M a j esty h o ld s pile Manor' and to h ave a ll t h e f ees a pp er t a i n i ng as L or d o f Soon of3ll of Workso , Notts, was allowed by the Court. af ter twelve o' p elock proclamation was made that all persons having do Five m - re to do before her Majesty's urnmissioners, do F i l ve g atten e dance on Saturday the 26th of °f aY, at twelve The Court theneare o'clock. Mr. Brown, a arose. onorary Secretary to the Committee . .of Barohnets, attended at the Council Office to present a petition to dressed, c Court of Claims from the Baronets of the Realm, ad _, to the Lords of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy iTadouilieil, appointed C ommissioners to receive, hear, and de _ er . rnine the petitions and claims of her Majesty's subjects, re lative to the coronation. The petition embodied a copy of one presented on the 19th instant to the Queen, and contained a ',,:otest against the order being concluded by the opinion of the ..-ta.rl Marshal, to whom it ha-been referred, that officer not be, . g vested with any judicial functions. Further the petition ict!aimed, under the Royal Letters Patent, and Decrees of James Ile First, that a small deputation of Baronets to represent thei different branches of the Order (English, Scotch, and t • rish ) may be allowed place and precendency at the Corona ion with the other hereditary dignities ; the Order having the reign the same in all the Royal State Processions during reign of the Founder King James the First, and also at the public Coronation of King Charles the Second ; no public sole rn nity havi ng b een observed at that of King Charles the irast c fro ah m the plague at that time raging in London. i net Coun c il was held at the Foreign Office on Sa turdaY Th afte rnoon. The Duke sat two hours and a half. i v inter evvs of Argyll and the Marquis of Winchester had street, with Viscount Melbourne on Saturday in Downing- le t Deputation including Messrs. Irving, Colville, and Pa- Stewart had an interview with the Chancellor of the t e llequer, a Saturd y in Downing-street. Ilt rrd Nug ent had an interview on Saturday with Lord Gle g, at the Colonial Office. - t t e l he Duk e o f " Chancellor fh E h Ricltmond had an interview on Saturday with v iQ 0 o t e xc equy r. ran ant Lismore and' family arrived on Saturday at Far s Hotel from Ireland. Viscount and Viscountess Dillon rho Marquisof jarrance's Hotel for Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire. at Lansd Lansdowne had a dinner party on Friday, Du c h "gne House. The Company included the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Earl and Countess and Lady Georg I.a uY Ho _ r eY, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, Lord and lland, and Mr. co lASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Chet and Lady Braybroke, in New Burlington-street, from elr seat, Audley End, Essex • Lord and Lady Heytesbury, B from 1, • per Brook -street, their seat, Heytesbury-house, in lit%h ire; Lord Crewe,: at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's tistreet, from Leamin , rton Spa ; General Sharpe, Lan James's ditto from Tunbridge Wells • the Earl of Shelburne, at d , M. P., at °wne House, from Brighton; the Hon. Frederick Le veson in Gosvenor-place, from the British Embassy at D Pa ris; Lord Loftus, from Brighton ; Baron and Baroness "/Isdal e , at Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, from their seat, toatirnr p fie ld - place, Herts ; Mr. E. Macdonnell, at ditto, from a d Mr• J. W. N a pi er , a t ditt o , f rom I re l an d ; t h e H on. eeaward Gardner, at ditto, from a tour; Mr. Hubert G a lt on , s t Tunbr idge-wells ; Mr. 0. Viveash, at ditto, from his Fllia Calne, Wilts ; the Countess of ;Tinto and the Ladies at the Admiralty, from Eastbourne, Sussex ; the Earl and , ei Countes s o f Delaware, in Upper Grosvenor-street, from their seat, B uckhurst Park, East Grinstead, Sussex ; the Cacl and Cou n t ess of Mansfield, in Langham-place, from from Wood ; Si r Charles and Lady Cockerell, in Piccadilly, their seat, Sezincote, Morton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucester; o ,l ' A. a n d Lady Dalrymple, in Park-street, from Brighton ; 7t w a 7 er Lady Chetwynd, from St. L ?onar d' s ; Si r F. B ur - Xerul, Pa rk-Place, fro m LuneiLhire ; th e E,. r i an d C oun t es o f am, in Grosvenor-square, from their seat, Gorbambury, "ens; the Earl of Radnor, in Grosvenor -street, from a visit at ~ . Goodwood to the Duke of Richmond; Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford, in Eaton-square, from Leamington Spa ; Sir Thomas and Lady Lethbridge, in Belgrave-square, from Brighton; the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury and Lady Mary Talbot, in Park-lane, from St. Leonard's; Sir George Sinclair, in Suffolk-street, from Liverpool; the Earl and Countess of Surrey, in Hyde Park-place, from their seat, Littlehampton, Sussex ; Sir William Brabaaon, in Charles street, St. James's, from France ; Viscount and Viscountess Sort, Miss Palisser, and the Hon. Col. Vereker, at Nerot's Hotel, Clifford and Cork streets, from Hastings ; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Halford, and family, in Charles -street, Ber keley-square, from Puttenham Priory, near Guildford; Lady Shaw Stewart and Miss Stewart, at Everall's (late Gordon's) Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Brighton ; the Hon. and Rev. A. Tumour, Mrs. Tumour, and Miss Tumour, at Fladong's Hotel, from Norfolk; Mrs. Dashwood, at ditto, from ditto; Wm. Tuder, Esq., Mrs., and the Misses Tuder, at ditto, from Wales ; Mrs. Edwards, at ditto, from ditto ; T. Bland, Esq., and Mrs. Bland, at ditto, from Paris; Wm. Pounsett, Esq., and Mrs. Pounsett, at ditto, from Cheltenham; Edw. Griffiths, Esq., at ditto; Captain Milner, at ditto; Rev. Mr. Dickens, at ditto ; Rev. Mr. Wright, at ditto ; Sir Thomas and Lady Lennard, in Bryanston-square, from Sir James Flower's seat, Eccles Hall, Norfolk. DEPARTURES. The Duke of Marlborough, from Crawley's Hotel, Albe marle-street, for his seat, Blenheim; Mr. and Lady Lucy Vaughan, from ditto; the Earl and Countess of Beauchamp, from Portman-square, for Sussex ; the Earl and Countess of Warwick, from Carlton-gardens, for Brighton ; Count and Countess St. George, for Hastings ; Sir Culling Eardly Smith, Bart., from Everall's (late Gordon's) Hotel, Albe marle-street, for his seat, Bedwell Park, Hertfordshire. On Friday last the Duke of Richmond entertained the following party at dinner at his house in Portland-place : —The Earls of Albemarle, Uxbridge, and Rlinto ; Lords Glenelg and William Lennox ; Sir J. Macdonald ; Messrs. Bannerman, M. P., Gibson Craig, M. P., Duff, M. P., and C. Wood; Captains Berkeley, Trent, and Hurst, M.P. ; Dr. Hair and J. Stevens, Esq. Prince Christian of Holstein Glucksburg is shortly expected to arrive in England. His Serone Highness has been appointed by the King of Denmark to offer his Majesty's congratulations to the Queen at the approaching Coronation. Count Gustave de Lowenhielm is to represent his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway on the same occasion : and the King of Sardinia will be represented by the Marquis de Brig nole Sale. THE PENSION COMMITTEE.-The Committee, which has been sitting for some time, have nearly completed their report, in which they agreed to class the different parties receiving money from the country, so as to enable them to get at those who have no just or tangible ground for being retained on the list. How many are to come under the latter head, or to what extent the amount they represent opposite to their names, cannot as yet be ascertained; but one primary resolu tion has been adopted, namely, that in future no pension is to be granted but for real and bona fide services. Mr. Hall, M.P., and family arrived in town yester day from their seat, Llanover Court, Monmouthshire, where they have been passing the Easter recess. The Tory journals announce that Sir George Clerk is to be brought in for Stamford by the Marquis of Exeter, vice Colonel Chaplin. If active operations are intended by the Tories, Sir George will be needed in and about the House. We have much pleasure in announing that the Go vernment have given a proof of their disposition to recog nize the claims of old literary servants of the public, by ap pointing one of the sons of Mr. Leigh Hunt, and the eldest son of Mr. Sheridan Knowles, to Clerkships in the General Register Office. THE CORONATION.—Some of our contemporaries have taken it upon themselves to announce that the Corona tion of her Majesty was to be postponed to August, if not to some more distant period. Now, although we possess no means of knowing what is determined on at Privy Councils until the official announcement is madc, we do, nevertheless, undertake in this instance to state, not as a rumour, but as a certainty, that there is no intention whatever of postponing the Coronation of our beloved Sovereign beyond the month of June. If we were, like some of our contemporaries, to in dulge in conjectures on the subject, we should say that the 29th of June would probably be the day.—Observer. The 'Countess Cadogan continues indisposed. Her Ladyship is still confined to her apartments. Married, at St. Paul's Chapel, Edinburgh, on the 23d instant, by the Re v . J o h n Si nc l a i r, A.M.,- Alexander Boyd Kerr, Esq., of the Madras Rifles, second son of the late Major General T. W. Kerr, to Jane Helen Campbell, eldest daughter of the late Major-General and the Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Murray Macgregor, granddaughter to the late and niece to the present Earl of Caithness. Married, on Saturday, the 28th instant, at St. Emes's Church, Piccadilly, by the Rev. R. L. Benson, Chap lain to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Guildford On slow, Esq., to Rosa Anne, daughter of General Onslow, of Stoughton House, Huntingdonshire. The Bishop of Llandaff very narrowly escaped meeting with a very serious accident on Saturday near Ilmin ster. His Lordship's carriage came violently in contact with a coal cart, by which one of the wheels was knocked off, but providentially the Bishop met with little injury by the shock, and in about an hour he was able to resume his journey.— Dorset County Chronicle. We believe it is in contemplation that during the present season a fancy ball, of a very select description, will be given for the benefit of the Scottish Corporation, under the patronage of the Duchess-Countess of Sutherland and other ladies of high rank; connected with Scotland. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.-011 Saturday morning a hostile meeting took place in a field near Kilburn, between Algernon Hullsingham, Esq. and Captain Bettfield, late an officer in East India Company's service. A few minutes be fore six o'clock, Mr. H. arrived in a chaise, accompanied by his friends, in the New North-road, and proceeded to the ap pointed ground, quickly followed by Captain Bettfield and his friends; the seconds immediately measured the ground (16 paces), when the hostile parties took up their positions, and fired, without either shots taking effect; the seconds inter fered and endeavoured to promote a reconciliation, but without effect. A second discharge of shot ensued, when Mr. H. received his antagonist's ball in the fleshy part of his left thigh ; he fell, and was immediately attended by his surgeon, and the wound, (which is not of a dangerous de scription) was dressed. Captain B. advanced to Mr. H., and both parties shook hands. The Captain and his friends then quitted the ground, followed by Mr. H., who was car ried to his carriage, which was in waiting in the New North road. The occasion of the hostile meeting arose from a gam ing transaction. - The long looked for improvements in the line be tween Westminster and Pimlico are, it is said, about to be immediately undertaken by a Company, on the tontine prin ciple, which has adopted the Parliamentary report on the subject. We may, therefore, anticipate the conversion of a most squalid, filthy, and degraded region into one of the most ornamental departments of the metropolis. IVI. Deville, Director of the Museum of Antiquities at Rouen, has lately made the acquisition of the seal of Saint Bernard de Clairvaux. It is of brass, oval-shaped, and about an inch and a half in its greatest width. It bears his effigy, but without the mitre, to which he objected ; and round it the legend. —Segillunz Bernardi, Abbatis Clarcevall. A person residing at Antwerp has kept minutes of the days on which swallows have made their first appearance at that port during the last eight years. In 1831, it was on April 6 ; 1832, April 13 ; 1833, April 6 ; 1834, April 15 ; 1835, April 2; 1836, April 18; 1837, April 21; 1838, April 13. _ _ The trades of Glasgow are preparing to get up a great public " demonstration" in favour of universal suffrage in that city. It is fixed for the 21st of next month, and Mr. Attwood and other " friends" from Birmingham are to be in vited to attend. The trades are to come forward on this, as on former occasions, with flags, banners, and music. At a county meeting, called by the Sheriff, and held at Shrewsbury on Thursday last it was unanimously re solved to construct a railroad from that town to Birmingham, and steps were ordered to be taken to carry one of the plans into effect.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. During the week public meetings have been held at Monmouth, Chepstow, Shrewsbury, Ludlow, and other towns on the road travelled by the late Bristol and Liverpool mail, at which condemnations of its withdrawal, and memo rials and remonstrances upon the occasion, were unanimously voted, numerously signed, and ordered to be sent up to the Earl of Lichfield, the Postmaster-General. The inconve nience and injury inflicted on the mercantile classes by this mail being stopped have been most seriously felt by the peti tioners.—Herefinq Journal. On Tuesday morning the body of a female was washed up on the banks of the Severn at Nait, near Gloucester. The unfortunate creature appears to have been murdered and then thrown into the water. Her nose was cut asunder, one of her ears was cut off close to the bone, there was a deep wound in her neck, and the back of the skull was dreadfully fractured. A coroner's inquest was summoned upon the body, which was sitting when this journal went to press. Cheltenham Chronicle. EMBARKATION OF ROYAL ARTILLEY FOR CANADA.—On Friday two companies of the Royal Artillery, belonging to the second battalion, were paraded on the Barrack parade at Woolwich, the senior officer present, Captain and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Maclachlan in command. The officers who embarked on this occasion were Second Captain Slater, Lieutenants E. Woodhouse and Paynter, Captain Shepherd, Second Captain Torakyns, First Lieutenants Fitzgerald and Youghal, Second Lieutenant Campbell, and Assistant-Sur geon Little. They marched down the Arsenal, preceded by the band, playing the " British Grenadiers," and after halt ing for a last farewell, the drums and fifes struck up " The Girls we leave behind us." They were then conveyed on board transport No. 13, lying off the Dock-yard, amid the cheers of the public, , who were freel y a d m i tte d. The Gipsy s Warning, Benedict's opera, now per forming at Drury-lane, has been the most productive piece since Gustavus. Mr. C. Kean returns to Drury-lane on Wednesday week , and the box- book book is already filled with na mes of rank and fashion. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn gave his second ball on Thursday evening, in St. James's square, in honour of the presentation at Court of his daughter Miss Henrietta Wynn. The spacious saloons were brilliantly lighted, and ornamented by a profusion of choice exotics. Dancing commenced at eleven to Weippert's band. The supper rooms were opened -It one, the dame resumed with a g,aloppe, and kept up with spirit until three o'clock. The company included above three hundred of the elite of the fashionabl e world. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1838. THE SOCIAL VILLAGERS. The members of this Society held their seventh anniversary festival on Saturday last, at the Bedford Arms Tavern, Cam den Town, when upwards of fifty gentlemen sat down to a dinner provided in his usual style of excellence by the much respected landlord, Mr. James. Among the company present we observed J. S. Knowles, Esq., (the founder), L. Blanchard, Esq., John Anderson, Esq., Murdo Young, Esq., J. Lawrence, Esq., G. Turnbull, Esq., Daniell, Esq., Moran, Esq., and Dr. Ilallion. Ort the cloth being removed, The CHAIRMAN (J. M. Cape, Esq.) proposed the health of the Queen, and in doing so observed, that the youth and sex of the Sovereign were circumstances of so interesting a nature, that ,a strict observance of the ordinary course adopted in drinking toasts of loyalty would not be an adequate expression of the feelings entertained by those whom he was addressing towards her Majesty—feelings that were rather akin to personal affection and regard than to the deferential respect that was always felt by loyal subjects towards the throne.—(Cheers.) The beautiful 1 ines in which Lord Byron dedicated " Childe Harold" to lanthe, contained a stanza which might, perhaps, have been more appropriately ad dressed to her Majesty at an earlier period, but which even now were by no menns inapplicable:— " Ah 1 mayst thou ever be what now thou art, Nor unbeseem the promise of thy spring, As fair in form, as warm, yet pure, in heart : Love's image upon earth, without his wing, And guiltless beyond Hope's imagining ! And surely she, who now so fondly rears Thy Youth, in the thus hourly brightening, Beholds the rainbow cf her future years, Before whose heavenly hues all sorrow disappears." Believing► that in these aspirations all who then heard him cordially joined, he begged emphatically to propose " The health of her Majesty, the Queen."—(Drunk with enthusiastic applause.) " God save the Queen" was then sung by the professional gentlemen present. " The Queen Dowager and the rest of the Royal Family," with three times three. Song—" The four-leafed Shamrock," by Mr. Evans, who kindly contributed to the harmony of the evening. " The Navy." Song—" The Arethusa," by Mr. Thomas Phillips. "The Army," Song —' years," by Mr. Gifford. The CHAIRMAN then proposed, in terms of high but just eulogium, " the Health of the Founder, Sheridan Knowles, Esq., and said that although the members of the Social Vil lagers were more immediately connected with that private gen tleman in his private character as a man, yet it was impossible, while contemplating his claims on their respect and esteem, to dissociate in their minds his transcendent merits as a drama- •" The flag that brayed a thousand tist, because the one character was a reflex of the other, the virtuous precepts of the gifted author being illustrated and en forced by the admirable example of the individual.—( Cheers.) The toast was received with enthusiasm, and when the cheering had ceased, Mr. KNOWLES returned thanks in a strain of affectionate and manly eloquence that touched every heart. He was proud of being called the founder of a society, the end and aim of which was to promote the social affections, and unite man to man by the mutual ties of broth er h oo d. _ _ _ _ Mr. Morgan then favoured the company with an Irish song in ids best style. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said that it was a fundamental rule of this Society that all allusion to political topics should be carefully abstained from.--( Cheers. ) There was, however, open to them a field sufficiently wide to engage the whole of their attention and exercise all their sympathies. Among the many things for which th-.! British empire was pre-eminent, there was, perhaps, not one more attractive in its nature, or more entitled to their regard, than the charitable and benevolent institutions of the country.— ( Cheers.) Whatever might be said of the wisdom or the folly of their ancestors, this they were compelled to admit, that in deeds of benevolence they had set their posterity a glorious example; and he was proud to believe that the pre sent generation, despite the chilling doctrines of the econo mists, were willing to follow, and that not with unequal steps, in the path of their forefathers. He had been led to make these observations because they were now honoured by the presence of a gentleman who was well known to be closely connected with and actively engaged in promoting one of the most excellent charities existing in the metropolis —he meant the Licensed Victuallers' Society.—( Cheers. ) He therefore, with much pleasure, proposed as a toast, " John Anderson, Esq., and the Charitable Institutions of the British Empire." Drunk with considerable applause. Mr. ANDERSON said he felt more than he could express the kindness with which his health had been proposed and received ; it was most grateful to his feelings to find his name united with one of the noblest charitable institutions which either this country or any other country in the world could boast. An institution which provided alike for the old and the young, affording comfort to the industrious aged whose success in not been equal to their deserts ; and sus tenance and education to their orphans and destitute offspring. It was well known to the intelligent company ho had the hap piness to address, that the Morning Advertiser, with which he had the honour of being connected, was mainly devoted to the support of these benevolent purposes. The charitable insti tutions of the British empire were justly regarded by every philanthropist the highest glories of this country, so long re nowned amongst the nations of the earth, and by none of them could the noble Institution of the Incorporated Society of Licensed Victuallers be surpassed. This important body of traders, but lately distinguished by a Royal charter, had proved how worthy they were of Royal protection, not only by the extent and utility of their benevolent institutions for the provision of the destitute, but also by the success with which they had entered into honourable competition with the most distinguished companies in trade, science, and art. Already were their steam-vessels selected for the conveyance of mails, both by this Government and the Governments of other countries ; and from the spirit and success with which that great branch of industry was carried forward, there could be no doubt that the time was not distant when their vessels should visit the most distant shores. Their Fire and Life Insurance Company gave the most perfect safety to the as sured, on the most advantageous terms; and the public ap probation proved alike the soundness of the principle on which it was established, and the honour with which it was con ducted. He need not more particularly allude to the large sum that was distributed weekly in pensions at the office of the Morning Advertiser, nor to their extensive school in Kennincr ton-lane, where the young were so well provided for, nor to their Asylum in the Kent-road, where the aged enjoyed ever comfort that their friends could wish. All thes e i nst i tut i on : proved that the Licensed Victuallers were a body who had honourably distinguished themselves by their benevolence, their industry, their intelligence, and their integrity. With such a body of men he felt proud to be connected ; and he begged to return the company his heartfelt thanks for the honour they had conferred on them as well as on himself. Song—" John Anderson, my Joe, John"—( A laugh )_b y tlr. Henderson. Mr. ANDERSON then proposed, in very eloquent and compli mentary terms, the health of Murdo Young, Esq., the Editor and Proprietor of The Sun, who, by his enterprising spirit, had introduced a system of communication between the re mots parts of the empire with a celerity hitherto wholly un exampled.—( Drunk with applause.) Mr. YOUNG acknowledged the compliment in a very happy and humourous strain. The healths of the Chairman and Vice- Chairman were then severally drunk, for which those gentlemen returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then proposed—" The Drama ;" for which Mr. Knowles returned thanks, and proposed the health of Mr. Blanchard, who expressed the gratification he had felt at being present at a Society which did honour to a man for whom he entertained the strongest respect and affection. Mr. DANIELL begged to propose_" Success to the forth coming play of Sheridan Knowles ;" and read the following lines from " Bentley's Miscellany" for May, which elicited much applause. " Fill, fill up a bumper no twilight, no, no! Let hearts, now or never, and goblets o'erflow ! Apollo commands that we drink, and the Nine, A generous spirit in generous wine! " The rose smells as sweet call it what name you will ; The right honest heart is an honest heart still ; Can we find a truer to garnish our bowls Than Sheridan, Sherry, or prime Paddy Knowles ? " The bard, in a bumper, behold, to the brim They rise, the gay spirit of poesy—whim Around ev'ry glass they a garland entwine, Of sprigs from the laurel, and leaves from the vine. " A bumper! the bard who, in eloquence bold, Of two noble fathers the story has told ! What pangs heave the bosom, what tears dim the eyes, When the dagger is sped, and the arrow it flies. " The bard, in a bumper ! Is fancy his theme ? 'Tis sportive and light as a fairy-land dream ; Does love tune his harp ? 'tis devoted and pure; Or friendship ? 'tis that which shall always endure. " Ye tramplers or liberty, tremble at him ; His song is your knell, and the slave's morning hymn! His frolicksome humour is buxom and bland, And bright as the goblet I hold in my hand. " The bard ! brim your glasses, a bumper I a cheer ! Long may he live in good fellowship here. Shame to thee, Britain, if ever he roam, To seek, with the stranger, a friend and a home ! " Fate in his cup every blessing infuse, Cherish his fortune, and smile on his muse ; Warm be his hearth, and prosperity cheer, Those he is dear to, and those he holds dear. " Blythe be his Autumn as Summer bath been— Frosty, but kindly, and sweetly serene : Green be his winter, with snow on his brow, Green as the wreath that encircles it now ! " To dear Paddy Knowles, then, a bumper we fill, And toast his good health as he trots down the hill ; In genius he's left all behind him, by goles ! But he wont leave behind him another Pat Knowles!" Mr. KNOWLES expressed his acknowledgments, and i pro posed the health of M r . M ccready, of whom he spo k e n the warmest terms of praise.—(The toast was drank with great applause.) Mr. MoRAN, having been called on by Mr. Knowles, re turned thanks on behalf of Mr. Macready. Several other toasts were drunk and songs and glees sung, and the conviviality of the party was kept up till near twelve o'clock in the true spirit of the name by which this excellent society is known. Mr. Murray is said to have given 4,0001. for the copyright of the lat e M r. Wilberfwee's life, of which the fist edition consists of 5,000 copies, upwards of 3,500 of which were bespoke by the trade. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. Newmarket, Sunday Afternoon. Caravan arrived from Stockbridge on Friday afternoon, with Grey Momus, and a colt by Margrave, d. by Blacklock, both in the 2,000 guinea stakes, which continues to excite great interest. The field is expected is be small, but the result will have an important effect on the Derby betting; Bamboo and Grey Momus are at the same prices as at Tattersall's on Thursday, since which day several hundreds have been laid out on them at the Club-houses. The 1,000 guinea stakes is likely to have a tolerable field of mares en gaged in the Oakes ; Gleaara, Barcarolle, the Fairy Queen, Unique, Velveteen, Mecca, Romania, and some others are in training, but nothing has been done in public to enable us to quote odds against either. The Duke of Portland's I3ceetian is the favou rite for the Newmarket Stakes ; the entry, however, includes Dw dalus, Beggarman, Romania, Alemdar, etc., all fresh opponents. The 100 SOTS. stakes to be run to-morrow is the only other race bearing any relation to the Derby. The Duke of Grafton's Chy mist is the favourite at 6t04 on him. The list comprehends 14 matches, several of which will not be run. Entry for the Plate (To-morrow).—Colonel Peel's Jacob Faith ful, 5 yrs ; Mr. Hennesey's Bravo, 5 yrs ; Mr. Sowerby's Seaman der, 4 yrs ; Mr. Houldsworth's Combat, 4 yrs. Lord Jersey has sold Mendicant to go abroad. .Mr. T. A. Smith has also disposed of Redcar (Slight colt). LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CHESTER TRADE CUP. 5 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Potentate—taken 11 to 2 agst Mr. Mostyn's Birdlime 8 to I agst Mr. Robinson's Whaley—taken 8 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Wentworth 9 to 1 agst General Yates's Sylvan—offered 0 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Mersey—taken 2 to 1 agst Mr. Clarke's Magician 3 to 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Catharina 0 to 1 agst Mr. T. Walters's King Cole—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Derby's Parolles 20 to 1 agst Captain Lamb's Chit Chat—taken 20 t• 1 agst Mr. Fairlie's Zohrab 25 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Galewood—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Combat—offered 100 to 3 agst. Mr. G. Cooke's Rachel—taken 100 to 3 agst Mr. Bower's Lord Stafford—taken 100 to 6 agst Mr. B. Collett's Conservative—taken IRELAND. In the Irish papers that we have received this morning there ie pub. lished a letter addressed by Mr. O'Connell "to the Protestants of Ire land of the Established Church." This public declaration of opinion, which our Dublin correspondent says will he fears " find no echo In the hearts of Irishmen," commences in the following terms : " Fellow Countrymen,—There is one proposition which I believe be assented to by every ma❑ of common sense in Ireland, namely—that until the tithe question is satisfactorily and finally settled there is no se_ cure peace or permanent tranquillity for Ireland. " The Ministers have brought forward a plan which the allege will attain that object. Whether it will or not is a question which ought to be quietly and dispassionately discussed." Mr. O'Connell, after animadverting on the infatuated hostility of the Tories to the Ministerial measure as toscined by the Duke of Wel lington, examines at great length and delivers his opinion upon each of the ten resolutions which Lord J. Russell intimated his intention to pro- pose. The letter concludes thus :—" It (Lord J. Russell's plan) holds out an immediate alleviation of the tithe composition to the extent of 30 per cent., an alleviation scarcely ample enough for the overburthened occupants and owners of eur lands—yet a substantial alleviation. " It holds out another alleviation ofour countryburthens by the appro priation of the rent-charges for local purposes—and it especially offers a direct appropriation for education. It contains in it some principles of great future utility, if these principles be honestly, justly and conside rately carried out into practical effect. Protestants of Ireland, are you so satisfied with the outline of this plan, as to assist me in making it more satisfactory because more useful. " You will perceive that it includes part and part only of the proposal which emanated from me. I certainly do not, and cannot approve of all Lord John Russell's arrangement. I would not approve of it all, but that it contains the germ of future ameliorations, and the means of a more perfect and final adjustment. " This is, however, a subject which will call for another letter. I will discuss the subject at more length, and show that it is the interest of every one of us to take up the matter in the spirit of peace and conci. liation. I will not ask any other to do that of which I would refuse to set an example myself. I have paid no tithes for four years. I will at once set the example of paying off my arrears, waiving for the present all legal objections. My wish is to excite everybody to abandon party spirit and to undertake the consideration of the present plan and its practical amelioration, with the sole and single view of terminating a contest, which, for more than a century, has been stained with blood and steeped in tears. " I have the honour to be, your faithful servant, • " DANIEL O'CONNELL." REGISTIUTION Bolan.— A meeting of the Central Board of Regis tration was held on Monday, at which Mr. O'Connell pointed out what he believed to be the course the Board should adopt. Subscriptions to a considerable amount were handed in by a great many gentlemen who were proposed as members. Mr. O'Connell's speech upon the occasion occupies three columns of the Pilot Newspaper. TIPPY.:IILRY MesioniaL.—The reply of his Excellency to the Memorial of the Tipperary Magistrates is addressed to the Earl of Donoughmore. The Orange party are of course vehemently irate that Lord Mulgrave should institute an inquiry now. Mr. O'Connell, before leaving Dublin, obtained a conditional order for a quo warranto against certain freemen for registering fictitious votes. He has entrusted the further management of the case to a legal friend. The Tipperary Free Press publishes a list of additional subscriptions to the reward for the detection of the murderers of Mr. Cooper, amount ing to upwards of 1,0001. John Maher, Esq., of Tullamaine Castle, has put down his name for the sum of 50/. The reward now amounts to nearly 3,000/. A notorious Orange paper has the following paragraph :—" A respec table farmer named Drinan, living at Oysterhaven, having followed the example of his neighbours in making a bonfire to celebrate the success of Colonel Thomas in ousting Mr. Pierce Mahony from the representa tion of Kinsale, was denounced by the priest from the altar after mass, last Sunday." THE QUEEN'3 VISIT TO IRELAND.—The official intimation (as it is regarded) that her Majesty will not visit this country during the summer, has elated the Conservatives in proportion to the dismay they felt at the probability of such an event ; while amongst the multitude of her loyal and devoted subjects it has caused great disappointment. Mrs. Nesbitt has been performing at the Theatre here, in Sheridan Knowles' comedy of the Love Chase, for the past week. She has at tracted but very small audiences, and the speculation is likely to prove a losing one. A warrant has been issued from Henry-street Police-office for the apprehension of a certain Honourable Gentleman in reference to the theft of the Duchess of Leinster's diamonds. It is averred that he has departed for the Continent. The evidence against him is only circum stantial. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The works on this line are proceeding most vigorously, and we perceive that three further contracts are advertised, extending from Lympsham to Bridgwater, a distance of about twelve miles, and completing the thirty-three miles which is to be opened in the course of next year. This line, though of less than half the cost per mile, owing to its naturally easy levels, is being constructed on the same sound principles as the Great Wes tern Railway, and we shall be much mistaken if it does not, map and section prefixed, and with an Appendix ere many months elapse, hold the same high ground in public a full tables of the traffic, which we consider most estimation. We have before us the last Report of the Direc tors,and as altogether forming the best Manaal of a we ever saw. We shrewdly suspect, however, that conv i containing iitnhg railway Magazine for May, 1838. few lines would bear such a full and truthful expose as is given in this document of the Bristol and Exeter Railway.— Railway RGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST LORD WlLLtolAmist So Major jormE4osnlyT. ile—fixThs W i illi Nb am o s lem ,oi an p , e N n Y b h e o dw is ,brother-in lawFlintshire, and had been on a visit there, has got involved in a trouble some scrape, through an unfortunate accident which occurred i o driver gz , n last Thursday . The particulars are these :—George Jones, an unladen a i whh r iel.ns t carriage. he to the the T passing returned we a publican, of Caer g wrley, and Margaret Evans, the wife of anot h e r publican o f the same p lace, we re on their return gfrom Wrexha m, and on leaving the town were riding on the t o wn for a top-coat which he had forgot, and Jone s d rove the team slowly on. The carriage of Lord Somerset, then on the way to Penbed w, left hinderthe a teamxl-tr in e a of the care came up, and v a of Jones timbe the waggon horses were lashed from the dickey of th e car riage, where his Lordship was threw sitting. The t eam ga ll oped o n, and a jerk o f the wheel Jones and the woman off the axletree. and they fell un 's der the wheel and were immediately killed. A Coroner Inquest was held on the Saturday, and adjourned over Sunday and Monday. The w itnesses distinctly swor e to the horses bein g lashed from the dickey of the carriage, and it was stated that his Lordship and his son were sitting there at the time. After an anxious inquiry the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the Noble Lord. He was present at the time, but on hearing the verdict he most unexpectedly bolted ; and as the offence is not bailable before the Coroner or justices, we apprehend appli cation will be made to the Court of Queen's Bench.—Ches ter Chronicle. The Salopian Journal gives a different ac count of the accident, as will be seen from the following ex tract, which we take from that paper :—" Oa Thursday last, about three o'clock, as a man named Hughes and his wife were riding on a timber carriage between Wrexham and Mold, a post-boy, in passing, whipped the leader of the tag, whey the horses started off at a furious pace, throwing the unfortunate people to the ground, and killing them both on the spot." DEATH OF MR. JOHN JOSEPH ING, THE DRAMATIST.-0n Saturday morning, at half-past two o'clock, at his residence in breathed his Beaufort-buildings, Mr. Ing last. From some capricious fancy he had assumed in his youth in the theatrical world the surname of Stafford, by which alone he was known as an author. He, about two years ago, was visited with an attack of paralysis, which he overcome in its extreme stage, but it left behind it a debility which, added to his previously declining state of healt h, g ave his friend s b ut faint hopes of his entire recovery. He was, nevertheless frequently cheerful, and seemed in a state of recover y ; but was at intervals subject to severe attacks of illness, which it was evident his constitution must prema turely sink under. The last attack came upon him about a month ago, during which he may scarcely be said to have rallied, although in appearance he was net rea ll y worse than he had often been be p fore, consequently, that although his death might have been looked forward to take place within a less period than men of his years (for he was only 39), yet it was sudden and unexpected by his family and relatives when it did occur. Of late y e ars sickness and othe r circumstances had cu r t a il ed his means somewhat, he was less affluent than he had been, and in consequence he has mixed less in public, and was seen by fewer of his friends of late; but his memory will long be cherished with unfeigned respect by all who had the felicity of enjoying his acquaintance. Ile was a gentle man in manners,. a man of honour in principle, a sincere, generous, and disinterested friend, and an affable agreeable companion. He has left a disconsolate widow to bewail his loss, with, we fear, but small property except the few manu script plays which have not been brought out. The bereave ment must also be severely felt by his aged mother , as he was an only son. Hi s pi ec es have contributed largely to the amusement of both town and country ; one of the mo,:t suc cessful was " Love's Frailties," which had a long run in ,Len don, and has been as frequently repeated since, we believe, as any play of modern production. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Allow me to do an act of common justice to the Directors of the Great Western Railway, through the me dium of your excellent journal. I am a Director of another Railway, and having been a pro pri !tor from the first in the Liverpool and Manchester and other northern Railways, I have, as an interested, though not professional amateur, made myself intimately acquainted with their statistics and construction ; I will further confess that I have shared largely in the self-satisfaction so commonly felt by those who are the first successful illustrators of a new sys tem, and was not less a partaker in the jealous prejudices against innovations on the practice first pursued. I have at last prevailed on myself to take a long journey to visit the London end of the Great Western Railway, and I am quite ashamed with myself for not having done so earlier, as I find I can no longer advocate some opinions on the subject which I have long strenuously maintained, and and in the expression of which I have, however unintention ally, misled my friends, and contributed to a longer persis tence in the construction of what I now consider imperfect and contracted models, rather than expanded and perfect in struments based on a judicious and well-calculated application of power and space to the required object. I rode at a charge of sixpence in half an hour from the Bank of England to the London station of the railway at Paddington; which is approached from the end of Oxford street, through the left side of the Edgeware-road. The entrance gates and piers, with a gate-keeper's lodge in the centre, are substantial, and sufficient without any pretensions to splendour. An excellent road for carriages, with a broad pavement for foot passengers, leads to the centre of the sta tion, on the right hand side of which is a capacious engine house and carriage -sheds, better designed than any I have before seen ; on the left side a wide space is left, apparently for a merchandise station, and a further space near the Pad dington Canal, which is, I presume, intended for shipping docks for forwarding goods by canal to the Thames, and the London and other Docks. There are some roads carried across the station at two or three points by noble arches of the best design and execution I ever witnessed; these arches are very roomy, and will be of great sevice as depots for carriages and merchandise. As you proceed from the carriage sheds, in the course of the line westward, you pass under some spacious arches so skewed as to admit the lines of rails in the required radii for the different terminations. The permanent rails consist of longitudinal bearers of Kyanised timber firmly bolted together, and confined by immoveable piles driven in the centre of each line, at the distance of fourteen feet apart, into which are let strong transoms across the lines bolted under the bearers, so as to firmly hold down the latter, and admit of strong and effectual packing of the ballat at the fourteen feet intervals, and at all times indicating the true level whenever the packing may require to be rectified. Upon the bearers is an 8-inch thickness of Kyanised hardwood, then a coating of tarred felt, and lastly the iron rails, with a 6-inch flange firmly screwed and bolted to the bearers. The whole appears to be most substantial, and an immense improvement on the block system. The locomotives and car riages I subsequently saw tried on a part of the line, gilded over it without the usual effort and perfectly noiseless to by standers. I walked down the line, calling at the several stations of Ealing, Hanwell, West Drayton, Langley, and Maidenhead. The engine-houses at Iver and Maidenhead appeared of good design and well constructed. They contain seven or eight locomotive engines, besides those in the house at Paddington. At Maidenhead I was much struck with the build of one called " The North Star," made by Messrs. Robert Stevenson and Co., of Newcastle, and of Harrison's patent engine with a multiplying wheel, and having the boiler and fire on a set of wheels separate from the principal ma chinery and drawing wheels. My impression is, that for passenger traffic, on such good gradients as those of the Great Western line, this kind of engine will ultimately super sede all others. lam quite a convert to the 7-feet guage of the rails, prac tically affording, as it does, such increased room for fire and boiler, as also for reducing the number of strokes in the piston, and admitting the conveyance of agricultural and every other bulky produce. The Wharncliffe viaduct at Hanwell is a splendid work. The road bridges on the line struck me as very numerous, owing to the great population and high state of cultivation ; they are well constructed, and of 30 feet span. The bridge Across the Thames at Maidenhead, consisting of two arches, each of 120 feet span, is quite unparalleled in masonry. The arches, I see, have stink about four inches since the centres were struck, but as it was expected to settle more than it really has, I conclude no injury will result from it; the arches, indeed, appear perfectly sound. On my return to London I was politely furnished by the Secretary with a letter to the coach-makers for a sight of the higher class carriages ; those built by Mr. Davies, of Osna burg-street, are truly tasteful and luxurious, and are worthy of a line which conveys passengers, as will the Great Wes tern, to the Royal Palace of Windsor. I was informed that the fares to Maidenhead by the ordinary carriages, are to be 3s. 6d. open, 4s. 6d. closed ; by the first-class carriage, ss. 6d. ; and by the royal or posting carriage, 6s. 6d.; and that passenger trains will start daily at 8,9, 10, 12, a. m., and at 2,4, 5, and 6, p.m., both from London and Maidenhead, besides the mail trains at 5, a.m., from Maidenhead, and half past 8, p.m., from London. After a close investigation whilst here of the probable traffic of this line, as well as the foregoing details of construction, I am satisfied that the opening now intended for Monday, the 4th of June, will result in a degree of success to the pro prietary far exceeding that of any other railway. There is so much ignorance on the subject of this line, that I think the speed, safety, and comfort of travelling upon it, will burst on the public, occasioning no small surprise, and lead to a decided preference for such lines as are being constructed on the same plan. On the whole, I must conclude as I began, with assuring you that I consider this hasty contribution as but a small act of justice to the wise management of the Directors, and the talent and judgment evince by Mr. Brunel, the engineer. Indeed, I strongly advise other engineers, and my brother Directors of other railways, at once to investigate, as [ have done, and act with candour becoming the great charge com mitted to them and their high profession, instead of dealing so freely in insinuations, and gratuitously calling the world to witness, like the conjurors of Egypt, the devouring of their little serpents by the miraculous serpent of their really in spired rival. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Long's Hotel, April 26, 1838. J. P. THE LONDON UNIVERSITY. On Saturday afternoon the distribution of prizes to the Stu dents of the Faculty of Medicine took place in the Theatre of the London University College. There were about 600 ladies and gentlemen present. The Bishop of DURIIANI having been chosen Chairman, said that objections were urged by some parties to the spirit of com petition, it being thought that such rivalry would occupy jea lousy. It might be in undertakings which were covert and secret, but in an institution like the present, he (the Chair man) felt assured that it acted as a stimulus for others to per seyere.—( Cheers.) In an institution like University Col lege, where the success of the student was hailed by his fel low-competitors as a reward of merit, it could never be sup posed that a feeling like the one he had alluded to could be entertained.—( Loud cheers.) The Report of the Faculty was then read by Professor Quain, from which it appeared that the students entered for the Faculty of Medicine had considerably multiplied—that they were strict in attention to their studies—that great ad vantage would be derivable from the medical degrees granted by the London University, as the courses of the College had beer, admitted by the University of Edinburgh to be acade mical, and, as such, students of it would be available to gra duations in that University.—(The Report throughout was i hailed with loud applause.) The following distribution of prizes then took place : PATHOLOGICAL AN ATOUY.-Professor Dr. Carswell.— First Certificate and Gold Medal, Frederick W. Mackenzie ; Second ditto, Thomas Lewis ; Third ditto, Benjamin Hob son, Welford, Northampton. MEDICAL. JURISPRUDENCE.-Professor Dr. Thompson.— First Certificate and First Prize, William Richard Rogers ; Second ditto and Second ditto, Alexander Campbell. BOTANY.—Professor Dr. Lindley.—First Certificate and Gold Medal, Henry Thomas Normansell ; Second ditto and Silver ditto, W. A. Raper, Horsham, Sussex. ANATOMY (SZNIoIt CLASS).—Professor Quain.—First Cer- tificate and Gold Medal, Wm. R. Ancram ; Second ditto, and First Silver Medal, Henry John Carter; Third ditto, and Second ditto, George Gibson Holmes. JUNIOR CLASS.—First Certificate and Silver Medal, M. T. Davis, Brecon, Breconshire. OBSTETRIC MEDICINE. —Professor Davis.—First Certificate and Gold Medal, Wm. R. Ancram ; Second ditto, and First Silver ditto, Benjamin Hobson, Welford, Northamptonshire; Third ditto, and Second ditto, R. C. Roberts, Ruabon, Den bighshire. — ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.—Professor Dr. Sharpey.— First Certificate and Gold Medal, John B. Tailor, Wood bridge, Suffolk ; Second ditto, and First Silver Medal, W. A. Raper, Horsham, Sussex ; Third ditto, and Second ditto, Richard Quain, Mallow, Ireland. CIIRMISTRY..—Professor Graham, First Certificate and Gold Medal, Mr. Wm. Miller, Paisley ; Second ditto, and First Silver Medal, Mr. W. A. Raper; Third ditto, and Second dittd, Mr. John B. Carlill, Hull. COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.—Professor D. Grant.—First Certificate and Gold Medal, Mr. Hobson. MAMMA MEDlCA.—Professor Dr. Thomson.—First Cer tificate and Gold Medal, ; Second ditto, and First Silver Medal, ; Third ditto, and Second ditto, J. C. Cust, Barnard Castle, Durham. SURGERY.—Frofessor Cooper.—First Certificate and Gold Medal, Mr. Thomas Lewis, Carmarthen ; Second ditto, and First Silver Medal, Mr. G. Gibson Holmes ; Third ditto, and Second ditto, Mr. Benjamin Hobson. PRACTICE OF MErnciNE. - -Professor Dr. Elliotson.—First Certificate and Gold Medal, Edward Woodridge, Chiches ter ; Second ditto, and First Silver Medal, Robert Ibeson, Barnsley ; Third ditto, and Second ditto, Alexander Camp bell, London. FELLOWES'S CLINICAL GOLD MaDAI. (FIRST PRESENT MRNT).—First Gold Medal, Mr. S. Hodson, Liverpool ; Second ditto, Mr. Wm. Wood, Selsoe. On the conclusion of the distributions, the Chairman stated that the receipts of the Institution had last session exceeded the expenditure by 1,0001., and there had been an increase of 57 pupils in the Faculty of Medicine and Arts. His Excellency M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minis ter, took his departure for the Hague yesterday morning by the Batavier steamer for Rotterdam. KING'S COLLEGE. On Saturday afternoon the annual meeting of the Pro prietors of King's College was held in the large lecture-room of that institution ; his Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY in the Chair. Among the distinguished personages present we noticed the Duke of Sutherland, Bishops of London, Wi-achester, end Chichester, the Rev. Dr. D'Oyley, Dr. Shepherd,. Venerable Archdeacon Cambridge, Marquis of Bute, Lord Bexley, Sir R. H. Inglis - , Joshua Watson, Benjamin Harrison, and William Cotton, Esqs. The CHAIRMAN commenced the proceedings of the clay by requesting the attention of the meeting to the Report of the proceedings of the Council daring the past year. Mr. SMITH, the Secretary, then read the report, from which it appears that the number of students in each departmetlt at Christmas last were as follows :—. Senior Department ...... Reaular Stadents ... 116 Medical Ditto Ditto ..... 60 Junior Ditto Pupils 346 In addition to these, 143 students have attended particular courses of lectures, so that the entire number has amounted: to 665. The Bishop of CHICHESTER, in moving that the report be received and adopted, said there was one part of it relative to which he felt it necessary to make a few observations. He alluded to that part which stated that there had been a :rifling diminution in the number of students. He did not think that ought to form a subject of regret to the proprietors when: he stated that the reason of it was, that institutions founded on similar principles, and for the same object as King's College, had recently been termed in different parts of the country, the necessary consequence of which much be, that the number of students applying for admission to the King's College would be diminished. He congratulated them on the effect the establishment of such institutions was likely to produce. BENJ. HARRISON, Esq., seconded the motion, which was put and carried. The SECRETARY then read an account of the receipt s and disbursements of the Council during the past year, from which it appeared that the receipts were 16,828/. 16s. 10d. ; which, after deducting the expenditure, left a balance in lthe bankers' hands of 1,2451. is, Bd., exclusive of 1,0001. invested in Exchequer Bills. W. L. Jones, Esq., R. J. Rent, Esq., and Richard Twining, Esq., were appointed auditors for the ensuing year. The B:shop of LONDON then announced that, through the instrumentality of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Queen had consented to become the Patroness of tee College. This announcement was received with loud cheers. The meeting then adjourned. The seL'ool has increased from 346 at Christmas to nearly 370. CORONATION COURT OF CLAIMS. (SATURDAY.) A Commission of the Great Seal, constituting the Lords of the Privy Council a Court of Claims, to hear and determine the petitions of parties claiming to do suit and servic,, at the approaching coronation, having issued, a Court was held on Saturday, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, consisting of the Marquis of Lansdown (the Lord President), the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Albemarle, the Bishop of Lon don, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. When the Com mission was read all her Majesty's Privy Councillors were in cluded in it, and five constitute a quorum. The first claim gone into was that preferred by Lord 'Wil loughby de Eresby, as Deputy-lord Great Chamberlain.: The petition was read, it was to this effect : TIIE PETITION OF TIIE RIGHT HON. PETER WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, DEPUTY-LORD GREAT CHAMBERLAIN OF ENGLAND. " Showeth,—that your petitioner, as exercising the high office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England, claims to be admitted, in right of his said office, to perform the duty and Service to the same belonging in as ample or full a manner as the same were heretofore held and enjoyed by the Lord Great Chamberlain of England for the time being; that he may have the living and lodging in the Queen's Court at all times, and bring to her Majesty on the day of her royal coronation her royal robes ; and that your petitioner may have all the profits and fees belonging to the same-40 yards of crimson velvet for the robes, together with the bed whereon the Queen lies the night previous to the coronation, with all the valances and curtains thereof, and all the cushions and cloths within the chamber, together with the furniture of the same. Your petitioners, therefore, prays that he may be admitted to per .. form the aforesaid services and duties appertaining and of right belonging to the high office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and that he may have, receive, and enjoy all the rights, privileges, fees, and immunities, and advantages to the same belonging and heretofore held, received, and enjoyr'd, by any Lord Great Chamberlain of England. ( Signed) " \VILLOUGHBY D'ERESBY." The claim in question was accordingly allowed. The petition of the Duke of Norfolk, which ran thus, was then presented, and read by the Clerk of the Court to their Lordships THE PETITION OF THE DUKE OF NORFOLK, EARL OF ARUNDEL AND SURREY, AND HEREDITARY GRAND EARL MARSHAL OF ENGLAND, TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS, APPOINTED BY HER MAJESTY FOR :RARING AND DETERMINING THE CLAIMS OF SERVICES AT lIER MAJESTY'S ROYAL CORONATION. " Showeth,—That your petitioner claims that he may find the Queen on the day of her coronation with a glow for her Majesty's right hand, and that he may support the Queen's right arm on the same day as long as her Majesty shall hold in her hand the Royal sceptre, your petitioner holding ,the priory or the manor of Worksop, alias Worsop, in the county of Nottingham, by, the aforesaid services. " That your petitioner, therefore, prays that he may be ad mitted to perform the said service on the day of her Majesty's Royal coronation, and that he may receive all the accustomed fees, profits, pre-eminence. and advantages to the said services belonging or appertaining." The petition was signed in the usual way by his Grace. Their Lordships came to the following decision : " Because it appears to the court that the Dukes of Norfolk and others, their ancestors of the said petitioner, Loris of the manor of Worksop, have by themselves or their deputies performed the said services, and as the petitioner now is in possession of the said manor as aforesaid, the petitior;tr is adjudged by the court to be allowed to perform all the said services, but with out any fee." The petition of the Dean and Chapter of 'Westminster, pre sented at the bar by the Rev. Dr. Monk, Biahop of Glouces ter, and certain clergy of the chapter, was next read. It was in these terms : The petition of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter's, Westminster, humbly represents . ,. that at every coronation of the Kings and Queens of England, ,be ab bots of the late monastery of St. Peter's, Westminster, [(aye been, beyond the memory of man, the instructors of the Kings and Queens of England in all the forms, rites and ceremonies used by the Kings and Queens in their coronation, and the pe titioners claim, as the abbots themselves, and other ministers of the late monastery of St. Peter's, Westminster, did, for all time aforesaid, they having usually assisted the Archbishop to perform Divine service in the church of Westminster at the time of the coronation of each King and Queen of this kingarn, that the ,robes and ornaments used at the coronation shall be retained and kept in the vestry of the said church by the abbot or by some minister or person in his stead appointed ; but moreover, the said dean and chapter, by virtue of letters pa tent of our !ate illustrious sovereign Queen Elizabeth, ought to be the instructors of our sovereign lady the Queen, at her coronation, and the said Dean and Chapter of the said Colle giate Church of Westminster in performing divine service at the time of the coronation ; and that the robes and the orna ments used at the coronation shall be retained and kept in the vestry of the said church by the said dean and other mi nisters by him appointed. " May it therefore please your Lordships to admit the said dean and chapter, and their ministers to perform the said ser vices, as the abbots and their ministers at all times heretofore have done ; and to have such allowances and fees as the said abbots have had during the same time aforesaid, that is to say, " First, Ten yards of cloth of scarlet, six ells of dark coloured cloth, six yards of sarcenet, two pieces of double worsted for the dean's robes. " Also, four ells of black cloth, and a piece of dark worsted for each of the dean's three chaplains, for their robes. " Also, robes for six ministers of the said Church of the Queen's gift. " Also, the stage, thrones, royal seats, tapestry, chairs, cushions, carpet.eloths, and all the ornaments with which the stage and the Church shall be embellished at the time of the coronation. Also the four poles or staves which support the canopy, and the four little bells that hang at each corner of the canopy : the blue cloth upon which the Queen walks from the west door of the Church to - the stage. " Also, the great chanter of the Church. " Also, to have an ounce of gold by the hands of the Trea surer out of the Queen's chanter." The Court granted the claim, except as to the retention and keeping of the Royal robes and ornaments used at the co ronation for the purpose of placing them in the vestry. The Right Rcv. Prelate and the Clergy then withdrew. After some further arrangements, respecting one or two claims of minor importance, the Court adjourned to the 26th of May. TILE TOWER OF LONDON.—I was induced last week to visit the Tower, accompanied by three Ladies, for the purpose of viewing the armoury and crown jewels, under the expectation that the long talked-of-reduction of admission had been adopted. But, to my surprise, the first thing we were informed by the warder in attendance was, that the fee for admission to the four departments containing the armoury, modelling, and ordnance, would be 2s. each person, and is. each person for the warders, making together 125..; which being complied with, we were next asked if we wished to see the Crown jewels, and upon answering in the affirmative, we were told the charge would be 2s. each person, and Is. for the warder, making together 95., which was also complied with. Having enjoyed the sight, I was then required.to write my name and address in a book at the warder's lodge, when, thinking our eyes gratified, and my pocket sufficiently punished, we prepared for our departure; but, to my still greater sur prie, the warder applied for " a compliment," as he stated, agreeably to custom; and, on demurring to the same, his reply was, that the fees paid fcW the warder (being 55.) were divi. sible among his fellow-warders. Not wishing to be considered mean, I was induced to give the further sum of 2s. which I now regret, for the gratuity was received under evident dis satisfaction.—( From a Correspondent to the Mirror...l In the case of the (contemplated) elevation of Sir ' John Hobhouse to the Peerage, the Liberals of Nottingham will have a candidate, in the person of Mr. Ewart, ready to supply the vacancy.